Brooklyn Bound: Nets sign Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player
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Jason Collins has signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets and is set to become the first active openly gay player in the NBA.
Collins will join the Nets for their game Sunday night in Los Angeles against the Lakers. The 35-year-old center revealed at the end of last season he is gay, but he was a free agent and had remained unsigned.
Nets general manager Billy King says that “the decision to sign Jason was a basketball decision.”